Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essential business of making a picture." The Women series, as the drawing made circa 1952 immediately makes clear, contained that private neurological signature known as style: the capacious, whipping curves of breast and thigh, the brisk L of the arm responding to the angles of the chair legs, the shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line around the vestiges of a head. With De Kooning, the energy and propulsion of the line tend to abolish the usual distinctions between painting and drawing; line turns out to be equal to brush mark in its power to suggest density, friction, displacement, tactility...
...moods and faces. These are only incidentals in a lot of films, but here they are pleasant enough to be the most important things, and also to remind us that the best function of art is often not that of probing "depths" but of making us understand and love shallow things, things of the surface...
Thal continually drove Schaffer all over the court with well-placed shots, often forcing her opponent into making off-balanced, high-lobbing returns which Thal converted into carefully-angled shallow shots that Schaffer couldn't manage to reach...
...study of theater people in the context of musical comedy. It demands a resourceful cast, for the book by itself renders a potentially compelling drama almost trivial. Scenes seem disjointed and sometimes limp; and the pithy remarks that could add some spunk, are scarce. Moreover, characterizations range only from shallow to hollow. Strouse's and Adams's collaboration on the music and lyrics, while adequate, is certainly not up to par with their Bye Bye Birdie. The score is plagued by a monotonous '60s rhythm and bogged down by four reprises. Music Director KenKatz wisely conducted his orchestra to play...
...Kevin Phillips, 33, a onetime Nixon campaign aide. Syndicated in about 125 papers, Phillips' crisp columns have harshly criticized the President for diverting Republican opportunities for conservative reform into "pep rallies, zigzagging, shallow domestic policies, dress uniforms for the White House police, and real estate deals with aerosol kings." Phillips has balked at impeachment because of "the chaotic consequences of allowing pressure groups to bring down a President...